Down n' Dirty Tacos and Tequila Bar Opens on Ocean Drive

The company behind celebrity-driven Sugar Factory has graduated from sugary treats to sugar skulls with the opening of Down n' Dirty Tacos and Tequila Bar.

South Beach's Hotel Victor is the location of the new concept, a colorful tourist-friendly restaurant that offers classic Mexican fare and cheeky cocktails. Like its sister Sugar Factory, Down n’ Dirty Tacos and Tequila Bar plans to expand, adding other locations in Miami as well as Las Vegas and New York in 2017.

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The cocktail menu is where things get interesting. A strawberry daiquiri turns into a "Panty Dropper" that will "make you hold onto your panties," and a habanero-lime margarita is so spicy it would "make Chuck Norris blink." In all, the bar serves more than 30 kinds of tequila.

Beachgoers on a budget will also like the restaurant's all-day happy, hour which features 99-cent tacos with the purchase of a drink or two 36-ounce monster cocktails — the kind found only on Ocean Drive — for $40.

Down n' Dirty Tacos and Tequila Bar is open daily for lunch and dinner from noon to midnight.

Laine Doss is the food and spirits editor for Miami New Times, has been featured on Cooking Channel's Eat Street and Food Network's Great Food Truck Race. She won an Alternative Weekly award for her feature about what it's like to wait tables.